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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1902-10-02, Page 7MURDER AT CIIIPPAWA OF MRS. FRANKS. that will lead up to the arrest or the devtd.h brutes who calmed *hie 'onsets, death lei .uch u brutal 'wiener {Whoever the;," are, they line, well covered their trade. Certifier Metf rry twrwinell'd a jury, n 110, all irr VI wing the deed woman end prewlees, adJeurtred until next elo do y. No Detlnite Clue. Chief Maher, of the Ontario for^e dl1.mueihig the murder, mold laic Therstlae night that be was pro -wed The Defenceless Woman Struck' iii with no dPfle L chat. ., meet luge,rtaut feature is that nu 61xr1- /delued weep ee were found. An axe ' was probably used by the murderer nod there was only oue wound, ulthougll the victim might have been stork trice In the atone place. There tate a feeling that the deed was cumwltlnl by u steamier, but where the bloody' weupen was con- ceal,d before the flight be something that will have to be. cleared up. A murderer would not care to bo bur- dened with a blood-etalned axe, and V the weapon le not found It wIII be hard to convince anyone that the deed was not committed by IUmernle thing In tho neighborhood. that the object was robbery, and Hutt the murderer was a stranger. Against tide view Is the more likely one, (however, theft the murderer knew that MrR. Franke wee alone In the house. Who would be likely to know this? Au Elderly WIdoW. Down While at Supper. The Top of tier (lead Completely Battered In—Deep Dash on tier Forehead —Her Clothes Torn and Dishevelled -5h* Was Evidently Disturbed at Supper—Fought iter Way or Dragged to Her Bedroom --Some Jewellery and Money Missing-11ow the Deed Was Discovered— No Clue—But Polke Working on the tare. Niagara Fa1le despatch–The most , ting rota had the look prier! oft and brutal murder that has occurred on the tontente tams! upside down. the Canadian Niagara Frontlet' took Several old epode guinea); were not place ,Amo me last erenluq lu the touvitod, but one American fire dot- plati ler gold piece was missing, and un-'beurt of the quiet little village of der u table was an old ase, wiech Chippewa. The victim wag u Mrs, ttideutly Mel been wed to pry upas Jessie Fleming Franks, a well-known the truck, resident of the village, who has re- A Uressome Discovery. aided In the village sieve girlhood. Tho ladles, realizleg that their Her Lifeless forty war found lying apartments had been ransacked, to a pool of her own blood clotted went and informed Mr. Herber, n etore keeper near by, who return - on the floor of her bedroom thin ed with them. After examining atorulag. Her bra;ue were battered their apartments, he went Into out. Mr,. Franks' apartments, and there klre. Franke, who warn widow saw a most horrible sight, He (110. covered the body of Mrs. Franke about fifty year's of age, moved Into lying Just Inside of her bedroom J. F. kluektem'e old huwtwteud last door lending from her parlor. One rpring. It war in tide house silo met foot was caught on lbs south dour Ler dtatu. Jamb. Herdrew wee almoet around her valet and the left sleeve of her benne tit the Murder. shirt waist wail pulled completely The pace it located ou the .outh- off. Fier caked arm bore bloody west turner of tie puttee spare at finger nark.. In the middle of her tea hear, of the e:.aage. The house forehead leading down from the laces west, ani is a eco -miry lilt riots of her hair to almost between Inane bowiewithu forge varunuua her eyes was a deep gash, while the ou the (rout tine uurth Ado uI it. top of tier head wan completely Large silage trees almost obscure battered in, and a portion of her Ute hours 'tn oval. ou the south brains were coring out. .1 etrernu gide 1r tae pubile read ruuulug east of clotted blood flowed Iriwarde and west; 0„ tea north oeu lie u towards the parlor. to the norUr- anal )'aced, 011=1 (eau nerubby fruit west corner of the parlor a most truer. The next to the 00rtll with gltwtetly sight was to be 00011. 'Pits u dlatladuteo loam melee ee 1r di- wee the spot, no doubt, where the v4ltug Woe 1■ ano0ler tvu 01017 poor woman gut Iter death blow. :rape holm owut'g .leu by J. F. Poole of Muted on the bloor. Mro. The There war another The derlor of the house where uportlntof blood the murder occurred 1. (Hewed or pct the flour, with (Lu (woman's Scilla and her bruk- the lower flour by u large hull, run - en 'lag from the trout dour to the spectacles tied back ltnh•cuwu. ran leo the right of the hull ate The will lu the north ride of tie one enters( the front door are the room war sputtered wltltbduud dear upurtrneute of Mrs, Fraukte ounetet- the bottom. Just ,net and under a .ung of large phut room, also timedwrlthag mend Ill this molter u! the as a parol' and comfortablyfur- ('rpm was another email pool of lashed. Oa tho met ode of th0 room blood, and eoerythlug Ito -heated la u door leading into another large that the poor victim had made a wenn, used as a bedroom, and (urtber must desperate struggle for life In the rear 1. the dbaogroom and againot big odds. Apparently the kitcbeo, with (Wer leading from the murderer dragged her bleeding bedroom to the north o: the kitchen. form from the nurthweet curlier It led out at the rear end of the hell aerobe the parlor floor end part- ly Into the bedroom, end there let It Ile. Uolug out to the kitchen he took a table towel off a clothes ruck, wiped blood on It either from Ids bandr, or olotltlag and lelt the Daring the Bummer Mre. franks hum) througb the window ou lite kept 0110 ur twu boarders, but the mouth tilde, or 00 he mime lino the past two or three weeks site hate been lours, from the rear through lite Thing alone lu her lwe apurtmente, storm houee, kicked in the back her only income beteg sane $15 eeut deur of the hall, wrenching the lack by a brother, who 1s located to the fustening from Its place, The mud- llkttes, On the left of the hull o; dy footprlute ure yule, ptuiu uu north elle of tho house aro two the floor. large rooms, one eyed are a bedroom and attuther a. a sitting -room by Mies Timmer, who le about. 50 year* of age.' As Mtge Thomas le a dletattt relative of Thomas' Maoklem she. Ii -cd durlug the defy and ate, her merle at las residence. She would come to her apartments about 10 e'clock each evening accomlxtnhd by someone: frena the Macklem home, a short dletinee away. The entruuce into Miss Themis' npartmente Is from the north side of the Melee', and there le also a Boor lehdiug from her room/ Into the hall. It has been the haat[ of Mire. Franke altyetys befom she retired about 0.30 o'clock to tight M1e1 Thumne' 111101) and (eaves It let her room. Yereterday WIN Thome spent the afternoon In Buffnio, returning In the evening. She went direct to Phoma. Atacklem's hour and about 10.15, acrompant'l by bar. elucktem, went to her apart - tient If. (110 brutes mlerpowrrrd her, alter n No Wein lu tbe House. deeperute etrege le. 11,. drew and Oat wetet Heti altered paled ulf her On arriving there they sound no and her undergarments w ere rime l light burning, Mr. Miteklem lighted alul torn into rbbuue front the '11141 eevern I watches, bet was enable to baud. Iter scretinls were evidently ftp; the lamp in either roost. They smothered with a nota. pillow twit went out Into the hull, llghtiel more lay to the corner where the crime matehae, and .then ripped on the door was committed, and utter probably leasing into Mrs. :Franke' (eerier. acconplwlling their brutal purpuoe, Hearing not a sound he partially they etrnrk the women on the lure - opened the door and cane! Moe head with the sharp side of sumo In - Franks. Still 11101-0 was Ito reply. ferment au she lay prone and partly 71hoy went to the rear of the (all, uneouecfoue on the Iluor. pulling her openlrlg the door into the dining body out of the turner emir tier door roost epi kltcheu. Mr. Macklem held Matting to the hall, the murderers up a lighted match, and eyeing no battered the top of her head in and trace of Mre. Franke, there they con- drugged her Irudy" to Ihr next room, owed elle had. gone out to spend and then ns a blind rifled Miss the night at some of the vlllugere Thomas' apnrlinenlN. holes,., ('tiling blank to Mlse Tatum- Although two colored wen, 1,110 n%' /1par/411en1 elle felt .0m11 to re- work on the power t owlstny'2 110rke mein 11100: In the house and returned and live in two rooms td the other with Mr. Macklin to Itis beetle, Mncklem houee looking towards Mrs. where shewem:tlned all (night. Franke' house, only the width of a levldenee of Robbery, town lot away, Huhu they heard no The; morning, wlehing tho use or noire last evening, yore. ,limes Office, her sptttnclee, rind remembering ;the who thee In au01hrr honer to the Fat lett them to Iter handbn.gg on the rear or Mrs. Franks' 110118e, clnlms bed, elle and Mrs. Thomas Mackhln she heard a peuteling noise nbtut e went over to the rooms about o'clock the; morning. t'poe the two Pollee Have a Clue, ,ladies entering they notloed that the As soon 0o Mr. Herber mode the top drawer of her dresser wart part. discovery he i:otified Village Conota• ly epee with the lock, which shelled hie Lymburner, wit, at nate notified always kept locket), wrenched off Chief 1Ua1ne, of the Ontario pollee, and (litho -4h severe' pieces of Jewel_ Theon two officers aro working hard ery were thrown upelde down In tiny on the case, and, although they do drawer, none of 1t wart nes/ing, .1 col speak, It le pretty well under - large trunk that etoat in the eft- stool that they are on to a clue to the summer kitchen, which, with the uprtutre, mode up Mre. F'rank's portion of the house. Had Meer. Living Melte. • Uue llesomeoble Theory. Tho hour of the retoltlug uud brutal murder le placed between U and 7 ()clock lust evening, u0 the lumpy lu the how; had lover beau yet lighted, cud the Buffulo Novae that Is delivered to her euct1 ,vete leg about 0 n. m., Itl1 hung on the [runt timer klub, never luring herr token lel, There is only uuu reutuu- able theory am to how Hee vlctlm met her death, deortly utter 6 u cluck (net eveutng the woman wee luring u Ilgnt supper of bread, butter anti Jam, with u coir of tea. Either one, or prooably two, men forcibly en- tered her reeldeuee (rum the rear 1111,1 sprung at her me elle Hall til her kit- chen table, to Insult unit outrage her, Tee woman jtntptd Irum the thele ,11th a table knife bn her bald mud • ran from the khchee to - omen her bedroom and Into the emote Heber, • The unfortunate woman woe a wi- dow, 52 years of age. hlfo was born 1n Scotland, and came to Meade when four year. old. Her only child, a .on, disappeared about fifteen yearn ago and has never since been heard of. Three brother., John 14 Albert and Ttionlae Fleming, reside at South Bend, Indiana, and have been notified of their eleter's death. Wa. Robbery the Canoe? The murder was an atrocious one, the motive evidently being robbery, although as far as le known the amount of money taken was trifling, uotwithetanding the fact that the whole lower story of the house was raneacked. Mtruck Down at Her Mail. TIie euppotetlon le that Mr.. Franke watt eating her evening meal, as the retealno of the supper were on the kitchen table. After 'strik- ing the woman clown the murderer meet have allowed her to remain In the parlor for some time, evident- ly for the purpose of ransacking the building, as a large amount of blood was on the floor, much more than was at the spot where the body was found The apartments ransacked, the body was dragged be' the arm and leg through the parlor to the sitting room, 11 1. Quite evident that the murder wag committed early Met evening. A peculiar cir- cumstance 1s that while the effects of Mine Thomas were handled 1n a nowlee gentle manner, there was nothing disturbed in the rooms of the dead woman. in Meas Thomas' bedroom was found an axe which had evidently been used to force the trunk, al there were no bloodstains either upon the handle or blade. The trunk sae thoroughly ransacked. Everything was found intact, with the exceptloa of an American !3 gold piece. At 7 oblook to-ntgbt an autopsy was performed and though the of- ficial report could not be obtained Lt was Learned that death had been mused by a cruehtng blow on the lop of the skull. Dr. James Mc(Ierry, Jun., who, with Dr, Andrew Gray, performed the autopsy. Raid that while there W11 If 110 poeltive evidence ora criminal tumult on lure. Pranks there was abundant ind.catlon, that it had been attempted. RESENT BOER API L. The Voice is Jacob's, but the Hand lhat of Esau, TRAITOROUS AND DISHONEST. London, ,Sept. :J.–BritiOh opinion w'i1rh eremite lett corm uud tune of the leer appeal. 'J'le' etutteneut$ ti, the app all are d,•se•rlted In the mere - leg papers/ here tie prepnete•uue, trnitoruue and dlehoueet. Some of the writers believe that the voice le ,Meeh',- coke, but the hand bs the Mimi of Esau. The;: uecrlbe the ell- tl'ren'e, Ila lie' dual Pill 11, llu 51)51- tmee geuerhlo hutting accepted It en- , Only hN It was dratted by Dr. Leyds 1 and Mr. Reitz. They Ray that the . goo rale have gone from bud to worse ',thee they hive been bt Europe, end Ore now euttrely dominated by the llulllwdc1 trrrcouchablee. '1'111, eforulug (bet inys it hope an American will be put on the (commit- ter of Supervision, null that ho nc- I.:omprtulc. the committee to &10th teen to erre the conditions In the 111)1.1 01 11o1Iles, the hi rdobtps of the Boer trunci and children, and the Brltleh rfforte to dlmbnfeh them. Tle 010 111111411 contained 1n the manifesto that 10,000 houee0 have 110,11 burned is ileclurel to be a gross rxngg •ra(l:,n, one rumpbtlnt Is made that wld!r the d Moment preeents the 01110 against Great Britain ht the worst pueetblc light, It dishonestly tenure, the fart that the Drilled) Government has promised to /Weenier 1w118 free of Intermit for two %'sere to ,stale the Biers to rceettle on their forme. It to pointed out that ,0411 If the Boers' eettmnte of 30,000 fame dretroyed it rorrerl, the $15,- 000.000 granted end r the peace terms, will give each family $100. The Wen that the appeal is likely to rrmnit to getting neeehing like $150,- 000,000 le rkllculed to preposterous. It hoe heon announce.( that King Leopoll of Belgium will go to the United States In 11O4. tool will at- tend the Sl. Louie Fair. MORE MINERS CUTTING COALI Firing on the Workers Stop- ped by the Militia, MUCH RIOTINC YESTERDAY. A Deputy•Shetlf shot and Clubbed ea He Ley Wounded–,leu Hrul- H11y Clubbed end Placed ou Hall- way Track–Aloe Coulpaules Buy- ing Arms for Their )les. Harrisburg, P.a.. Sept. 117.–Tile big breaker at Williamstown was oper- ated yesterday, and over two hun- dred wagono of coal were handled. No interference was attempted by the sulkers. The breaker at Likens will be (started to -morrow to run out the coal mined til. week. Both bulldfnge will be strongly' guarded. There are over 350 men at work In the mine., In the Lytton. region, which le in the lower end of Schuyl- kill county., Yeeierday'e Turbulence. ,Wllkeebarre, Sept. ;i7.–The trou- ble at Vs'anamie. which 'farted Burly last evening, developed after midnight into a very serious af- fair. The deputies fleet reut to the Hoene were unable to menage the crowd, and as It grew In numbers uud reckleeeneer 1111 extra force of depletes were nee to the scene. Ex- peotltlg their comiug, the elrlkere had placed obetructlone on the trucks, and the two cars carrying the deputtee were derailed. Prey!. curly, the sulkers bud wrecked u coal train on the came road by opening a reiltele and they later added to their work by ttrowlug two dyeawite bombe over the etockaue of the NO. lb colliery. The bombe did no harm, however. Upleer Clubbed. Deputy -Stent( {{'illlulus 040 slot down tied clubbed 110 he lay un the ground. His eowpein:one churgtd and mauogutl to restate hem, but he le dying. A fireman was 11101 111 1.110 leg and the oeputht, were driven inelde the etockame whsle the workers were driven teak houee. At the scene lune at Nanticoke, nearby, crowds of etrikers were parading the etreet., aeeaultlug ev- eryone euepccttel of beteg lou -union. John Neneetowdti woe stabbed hl three pewee and dangerously wounded and a score M othtre were neetultel, some seriously, wide Nee- el'a{ Bolos, were atoned and oft cera who tried to enforce order were at- tackee. Stung bud shoot at Deicers. .4 Rer:uue CODINA urcurl'el between etrika'e end deputies near Freeland. There ,owe .,UW .4tlkere in two plebes eurrtuudol the upper Le-- IMioh colliery oe the north and south approncIee and drove off tie work - met. Twenty dsputles, commended by 'uper.ideneent Letenolne and known tie the flying equr/diou, drove back Oho crowd until clone to the bur- - thigh limits of Freelund, where It mode u stand and stoped and fired at the deputise and wen wrroundlng them when some 1111ltm heelers ap- peared and eotupelled their men to kil l:erlro. Minor 1.10 of violence to the number of two ,core and more are reported. Put Wounded glen oat the 'Track. Pittston, Pu., Sept. .7.–lnforuut, thin npreni1 rapidly flet evening that the Lehtglr Valley ('onlpthy would resume work at its Exui Ir (ltIll cry at R'ret 1'itleron tide Morning and the re 4ult well., that plank 10,1'0 Illn- eiedintely formed swung the etrik- 1"r,w to frustrate the attempt. The break of day (1/0011 every uvtvlue Irmdlug to the colliery guarded 11011 11, crow,( of fully 1,(100 men. collects -.l. Every nein caught un hie way to work evils stopeed and ordered back. About It dozen rowplItul with the order, but other, pereleted lu going to wort mei the roma emit they fell vitelme to the brutality of the mob. Pour torn were nssiiulted. They are: hotel Harris, of wrest 1'(11- 4(1, Ilse 1(020; Du111 Rbchurds, ur {V)0uliug, fire Imes: ,fol(n 1'. Stroh, of leeet Pittston, carpenter; Thue. Berke, 1 (rely wherlff. Stroh wait the meet errionel4lnjurel, bring hit (el Uie hold with a tut lletg, 411111 t1 0'11 Orli lully Smitten 011 the hack by teekhundle. In an nnemorioue ('1,11,111 inn he wee dragged to the Delete:1r', Imeen.wtianult & Western truck, tete Mid .(01-1814 the ralle. St r, : r, ilor,:, however, ;old crawl- ed from the trunks. Harris wit 01rnck to,r the lienal with a bttll pipe and 111 ugly gated Illfhe(eJ. Ab the outset dforrfe fired a pistol to the ler, but before he could re- load, nu'mbrra tit tlln mob were upon hien incl lir trete lolly bwtteu. letely 100 shot+ were tired, Ent eel far as moil be lento -el only Der mo% effete, lecitarde. the (ire boos, be - ng 0101 bt 1111' 1rg mei badly wound - 10). Thr ehhriff WON het MINI 0.101 001- rral 4lpiabrn 1111 rrlel to the Raene. One tit ihteir cuwbcr, Titov, Burke, root rifler, arrival woe ret upon ail 1 err t ell a rsevere pounding. The trouble 10.011 11'01 ,)much,' 1(1ter 6 u'(.luck. Misty of the mob were arm - rel with rt•vnlver0 nixt gene. 'pie 11arte to prevent work at the cul. lietee were only tempurnrll,t' 0110 01.104. fol, hr- the plan( wee in op"ration thio 01r7101M and turned out 75 tone. Work will be coati:mei to- 1A01•ruw', Arun Hruught to New fork. New York, Sept. 27.– AltIOougll prat Uenllt' eo anthracite coal le bent; rc,elved in tills city', and the pewee continue to soar, the preol- deulw of the coal roadie at ,their meeting ye+terday expressed satis- faction at the result of the week`s work unit dralnretl Hutt the outlook for 1114• coming week Ie brighter than at any- time since tete strike began. They agree that many men wou'Id return to work If they did not fear vlolenee, and they aoeume that the culllug out of the additional troops will inspire many men with conll- 'lern:t' to 1•etalrne. One of the great coal companies hue merle large purchases of arae and llmmunitlon lu New York, and hue ehlppel them to 1ts corllorleeln I'enesyh'anic, Intendlug to arm tut - ant, (re to old the Coal and Irou Po - der, aryl, if the mutate) arieee, to oppose• form) by' force, Thue attitralC of the operator% re - amine uue0mprutel,ing, They in0let that the only pomslbbe outcome of the etrike le the surrender of the neva. Their belief le firm lhlrl the union cannot retest, indeiinitel,e and Out there snoth will be desertions In groat enough number+ to cruse a grnernl rude .dick to the to -bus. DOCTOR DIED Of RABIES, Pathetic End of a Detroit Vic- tim of a Dog's Bite. HE REALIZED HIS CONDITION. Detroit, despwUch–Dr. (leucite E. Metcalf ilei Ito llurper Ilorpital on Sunday Il ft('1'nom; under Olrrum- manoee of a pecuhurly pathetic telemeter. Owe lulu month, ago Dr. Metcalf, who wan a veterinary surgeon, was called upon to treat a dog. While attending the animal 1b made u vicious snap at blue lu- fleeting a slight !neer/Men with Ito teeth 01/ one o1 Dr. eletcalf'e lhumbr. The 'tlhu•y was eliget and utu,sed Dr. Meterilf no Iwirtleulnr lnrunrenl- (11011 at the time. The dog died a day ur et later and the wretch hov:ng healed up, Dr. Metcalf took 00 1110r0 thought of the mutter un- til fuel Setuldny morning, when he began to develop the symptom,/ of hydtophobla, otic of which 11 (0 un almost uugsvernuble desire fur was- ter, white' he was 'melee to drink owing to the epaenlodie euntrnc- 1:p11 of the muscles of the throat. Stern/el at tercet, Dr. Metcalf, by an al1xlst euperlulmun eftort re- gaLnel hie efa-tontrv,l, then calmly procwrtrl' l to mike it d'tageoole of hdsr tepee, arriving at it true realize - ton of the meaning if his etymp- tome. Ile then summoner[ Icim brother, the well-known phyeleinn and eur- gton, W. F. Metcalf, No. 13if Wood- ward avenue., To hie brother the inflicted man Imparted the eedret of b''ir condlllon, stating that he knew h(merlf to be eufferintt from rabbles end that there could he no hope, nettling but depth, and that In one of dee most agonizing loons, within a few- hours. With it full realization of hie coudlllal, and with h`.r fond wife and four young children about him,. the strong In1l0 lone eubJucted to- an ordeal tuck as few men could face. {1'hnt horrible mental torture the unfortunate man underwent during the few hours welch In- tervened between hit discovery of the rent etnte of nflalre end the time 1041011 lie became IIIICntiecl(Ilte at the hospital, no one rel ever know. By direction .0f hie brother, the suffering man '110 removed to the hosphnl Slttu'tbty nfterneou. Af- ter a day of agony he passed Into a delirious state Sunday morning. Death:came nen welcome relief on Bunch ,% rtfterllO011 and the twitch. tag reusel08 were at reef, The dog by which Ifr. Metcalf was Shiva npprnrs not to bare devel- oped the symptoms of rable4 to nay noticeable extent Refers his death a few day+ after 11 hid bit- ten him. The Identity of the Owner of tide dog le not known to Dr. Met. 701's friends, Dr. Metcalf was ahem 0 years of age lend moved lo De- troit from Canada n number of yelLre ego.–Iretrolt Tribune. TRAITOR SENTENCED, A Uenunu Subject lViso ('1rrlyd Un• portent Meorages. Londule, Rept, 90.–A denote!' from Cape Town to the Central dell n any, tial 1:19wsl Jirueheh a Grruurn eun- Jeet, has been cowirte,l of 1relu ill'ry It ill eelltetiCed by a 1n1Yit:u't' , i,ii 1 a i 1'retorlt to ten 711(12 inlpuionnn'at w'1lh hard Ichor. Tar ',prim_' fn its eaee showed That Ina1 %11001, eft,r haling tlkra 1Ile sell of nrulniliiy, lleneehei started for cerw4117, carry- ing 111th Ida a miller of Gnffir eur- l0ettles, r•nlong which ;vete round, when the eurlolites were rannnhtrd tit 1tie frontlet', c„rent: dee mento 4141r/oil/el by (011)11121 10114 II 1 111 y, re to former I'reeldent t rugt•r end lir. Lrvds, the BoPr represontrttle 1u Eu-, reps. The prleo1er p'endelignorance ate ((1 flip co0teet8 of the documentl, lint ndmllted tint Ile had been prondeell $5,000 for delltering theta. A re S. warship Is 141 be sent to the Orinoco.